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United States Patent | 5,047,050 |
Arpesani | September 10, 1991 |
Internal prosthesis for the substitution of a part of the human body particularly in vascular surgery, which has a body (2) with a substantially tubular configuration made of plastic material tolerated by the human body and suitable for being associated by its free ends through a suture, to the ends of one or more arteries: advantageously the body defining prosthesis is radiopaque (4) so that it can be easily detected by means of an X-ray apparatus.
Inventors: | Arpesani; Alberto (Piazza S. Angelo 1, I-20121 Milano, IT) |
Appl. No.: | 596409 |
Filed: | October 10, 1990 |
PCT Filed: | February 17, 1988 |
PCT NO: | PCT/EP88/00115 |
371 Date: | October 14, 1988 |
102(e) Date: | October 14, 1988 |
PCT PUB.NO.: | WO88/06026 |
PCT PUB. Date: | August 25, 1988 |
Feb 17, 1987[IT] | 19405 A/87 |
Current U.S. Class: | 623/1.34; 606/228; 623/1.28 |
Intern'l Class: | A61F 002/06 |
Field of Search: | 623/1,11,12,13,66 606/228,231 |
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